FOUNDED IN 1939 M OCR AT THE PAPER THAT SHOWS THE WAY FORWARD No. 356 FEBRUARY 1974 7p Allow hunger
WE ARE STILL SEVENPENCE HE "Irish Democrat" would have T been raised in price this month but for the three-day week. Some A.U.E. W; honours of our readers are on thrHr days, others on five, thanks to the policy of the worst government thtc coun- Co. Down man try has ever ha& Though it is true FOUNDATION member of the that S copper is net much, copper* r Connolly Association ft. C. mount up, and we thought we would Fairley (Bob Fairley to you) to hold, off the increase on the three- has been awarded the "Award day men, and hope Mat the five- a* Merit" of the Amalgamated day men would voluntarily make up the dtflerenoe, Union of Engineering Workers, and is to receive a presentation Tha 'a^tlNincoiat" is under- Force feeding anxiety growspriced in tfN M days of inflation. from his branch (Stoke Newing- Wt know that because we are sub- ten> at a gathering at the White stantially cheaper than papers Hart, High Street, opposite which we have been runningltvet Road, at 7.30 p.m. on wMh in prfce for years. ftttMy it ebrtiary 1st. The m«st» ought to ba lm pence. Wo Would «n to friends of like our readers to think over who is a Count) # HC detention of two hunger-striking girl prisoners in o men's prison whether we ought to raise it to tan Melon* pence in stages, or bring lit right up with a bang with a vie* to oim * where they ore being subjected fo torture of forcible feeding is holding It there as long ae pontile. tly retired from the rapidly becoming o public scandal. We understand' there is sod* to of his ftnutdi oners were still interned, for be an. enormous rise w tha n lea in had held for nearly Not only those, but all other prisoner* ^result of newsprint* sa tbat a smatt rise related to the troubles in the six how long, and when they were fi going to be releas^. Bfe had might haw «»Jba leHowed- by an- I to serve their sentences in WtSaiuB antic ''MM; protest vhfr .01 Northern Ireland had ~ Our imt atfa * ruh- aft! I Trades Council has Why make an exception for greased tube was inserted every them? morning at 10 a.m., ttnd pushed .transferred to Britain tb conPj pence sp long is due to help we sent the following resolution to plete their sentences and how' have receive* the ^rhm Minister and Home right down into their stomachs, Because to be situated so far many had gone the otter way: In the nuailfliM car very best Secretary: front hoifte places an extra bur- as they writhed, vomited and choked. He believed that 20 had been, thanks to: f. Qrtene 25p, D. Kel- ''We,the Ealing Trades Council, den on them which does not leher £1.S0, John and Leona Rob- pretMt against the harassment and transferred to Britain, but' affect most other prisoners. VILE MASH wanted to know definitely. He < inson £2, T. t. Cuddy top, Douglas intimidation of N.I.C.R.A., a non- Their relations and friends have Eden sop, Albert Rice £1, Richard violent organisation, and demand When the vile mash which thought the system was one of several hundreds of mites to one-way transfer. Bannister £1, Mrs Evelyn RatcWIe that their request to be left free to travel in order fo visit them; was forced down this tube £i, F.H.O. (Nuneaton) £V Dublin earry «f| their peaceful activities be reached the stomach, the girls thus they are either deprived of He had further requested the Joe (N.W.10) £1, A. Formal! £1, acceded to." vomited. If they brought it up, Home Secretary to describe . J. Kilderry £f, C. Maguira D. A Resolution on the same subject their full quota of visits or they it was forced down again. and B. MaHooh £1, D. O'Brien j'i, was also passed by the Ealing are struck at through their rela- exactly the procedure of forc- M. Brennan *V MNo "f. tCr Mc- tives' pockets. Mr A. W. Stallard told one of ible feeding, and wanted to •rane* «f the A.U.E.W. the lobbiers that he was trying Carthy 75p, Tim Sheeha* Mp, This is what the hunger strike know how many prisoners were Birmingham Readers sop, Central to get into Brixton to make a on hunger strike and for how London Readew £4, East London has been fundamentally about full investigation but was not and .it is excellent that thanks to long, and how many had been Readers £«4V South Londoh Head- Salop three finding it easy. He understood subjected to forcible feeding. ers £tM, West London Reader* the publicity given by the the relatives were finding it £7.39. Total BMM. demonstration "Guardian" and "Morning Star" very hard to get to see the two He has written separately with newspapers and Miss Kaye's boys who were also on hunger a request to be allowed to visij. OROMINENT among the many them. , • * sites and jobs represented at appearance on the B.B.C.'s strike. MEMORIAL FUND the Shrewsbury Three Demonstra- "World at One", members of Mr Stallard told the "Irish Arising further out of the The following further jffjllini tion in London on January 15th, of the British public are begin- Democrat" that he had put lobby one of the group of M.P.* have been nUlntf In npiwf •• was Sindall's St Bernard's site in ning to realise the facts. down a series of questions on friendly to Ireland has put down Pat Devine: A. r. m. Tattam £4, Soutball. Leading shop steward the present Irish situation. He a question on the subject of the A.U.E.W. (Engineering Section) £2, Pat Quinn and others attending the M.P.S CAMPAIGN wanted to know how many pris- raid on N.I.C.R.A. M. Keane £1. , Demonstration and Lobby had 100 During its lobby for "Hands r cent backing from all those off NICRA," the Connolly Asso- with them on the gigantic new hospital, for this action in de- ciation made the condition of fence of the workers' right to the prisoners one of the related A issues. Mr A. W. Stallard gave • ... •'. • f pMlit, which the Shrewsbury yOU should have seen Brian her own name or address. jtidgnlant so'gravely undermined. the lobbiers almost two hours of And the boohs will be tent ? : his time and explained the cam- Crowley in the "Democrat" So that was why Brian was if six people ail claim them paign he was waging to get the Bookshop, pursing his eyes as busy scrutinising the envelope. we'll have to choose the most Oil girls back home. he tried to read something that it could be a woman's hand, yet likely and hope fee the beet I < wasn't written. For a letter had on the other hand it Cfuld be And if nobody writes in, then He and other Labour M.P.s ex- come in ordering three books a man's. Anyway, that writing Union Lolor plained quite clearly that they somebody in Batharii has become and enclosing a payment of £3. is important. Will the person an unwitting, philantropiet TN the first part of his lecture on did not think anybody would be The order was made by ticking who ordered the books please James Fintan Lalor, put on by justified in committing the car a coupon from the "Irish Demo- send us another letter in the the West London Connolly Associa- bomb offence the prisoners were crat", two books on Connolly same handwriting ? tion, Eamonn MacLaughlln showed convicted of. and one on the l.R.A. The similarity of the hand- an incomparable ability to recreate But they regarded the thing in •m the atmosphere of famine, rural But woe and _ alack I The writing will be our guarantee the light of humanity and com- sender had not enclosed his or that the claimant is genuine. x\r HENEVEE * letter bomb or unrest and Monster Repeal Meet- ¥ r ings, and hold his audience en- monsense. The ice - cold flinty c«Wr- if twin #wtee-imt e% inflexibility that was being the mw media meoUon the Mkl thralled. Why? This to slander by Meed%-,. The second part of his lecture shown was typical of the Heath WEST LONDON CONNOLLY ASSN. lion. ' Will be given on Thursday, 14th Government. It was necessary Why aet •Urtim February at Hanwell Library, W.7. to bring a ray of generosity to THURSDAYS, FEBRUARY 14 & 2t admlt they act Illegally. They admit »t 8 p.m. when he will examine bear on the Irish question. they are. trying to tfabvert Eamonn MacLoughlin Pot O'Donohoe union* and inJnre Irtah R< Lalor's place in the Irish struggle Second, the girls might die. lam. Mightn't a few bemto aMriked J or freedom and the special value The process of forcible feeding to the IrietkM^^MPpi^Se at ior today of his life and ideas. was excruciating. The girls' FINTAN LALOR WOLFE TONE Instead m., F9i Mr MacLaughlin's talents leave mouths were forced open and a o ii i !• unwii appFhf toJjjjif'm i us in no doubt that this second lec- wedge of wood was inserted be- qniry (pnMic i ture will match the first in clarity acttvttle* or zzz •t tween their jaws. Through a HANWELL PUBLIC LIBRARY 8 j*.m. itfiliMa- HeliS • JtUkJI alae> For ^nd force and our readers are ad- wros|-uoer8. aimi cw& they're ap (a vised on no account to miss it. round hole in the wedge a you don't know WHAT 1 v777 % :
2 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT February 1974 Febrnry 1974 p i THE IRISH DEMOCRAT i INSIDE BRITAIN TODAl t STUDENTS SAY OUR AIMS STILL THE SAME utftiMittMiritittitif r ittjijjitj iitftitM rtrtiiiiuiissiaiiii rai»«H*iitii it«titsat*«fiit *iriiiat*s*i i)tii**M«stt*tf tf«a«f iftattittiii GOVERNMENT BY HYSTERIA LET PRISONERS COME people have asked continues, and so far there is no ^ whether in view of the Sun- discernible prospect of its being YOU LIKE OYSTERS? I HOW AN ELECTION FEVER WORE OFF SERVE AT HOME ningdale agreement and other ended as long as the present A T the General Meeting of th» developments, the Connolly Governments remain in office in Association's "Affirmation" in Empiah, boys! Now both • Kingsway - Princeton College Dublin and London. The third ^ FISH goes bad Irom the going on at Heath Row are E.E.C. without the people's con- which we invite people to de- those roads are closed. As dur- Student Union held on 16th Janu- statement it makes is that the head down, says the Tur- practice for that. Perhaps the sent. He was not "responsible" elare what the English Govern- ing the week of hysteria the ary, attended by Connolly Associa- Tories have made a mess of it. kish proverb. So when Edward bringing into the country of nor "patriotic". He got £30,000 tion member Paul Maeardle, a reso- ment's policy of Ireland Tories were some of them Most people would say yes to Heath. England's walking mis- forty C.I.A. men who openly from the Germans for his work. lution was passed demanding th® SHOULD BE, has become out bracing themselves for a coe- that. tart une, decided to try Govern- boast that they will break the Put the miners must b® unconditional end to the forcible •f date. ment by hysteria, the mass 1»W> and; the Government (who- "responsible" &n4 "pltriefcc''. frwiation with a working disss feeding djf the four Republican Then as for the policies re- The "Affirmation" states that media, the sycophantic satellites presumably invited theaa. in) steHild theyH' fc jkji... / ui*il»d as never befW»', so«i#- Printers Marion and Ifcloyrs Price, quested-to meet these facts, thing happened to their wills. Hugh Feeney and Gerald Kelly who the new regime is being estab- they are to end all forms of im- of radio, television and press, will "wink" at it. Perhaps party is supposed to They realised that they couldn't are at present on hunger strike in lished in Ireland under virtual prisonment without trial, end became as hysterical as their indeed they may know who is be fitinaed on private enter- win. And as for the Empiah, it English jails, and that they should military dictatorship. That is military involvement in civil hero, the great strong decisive letting off all the bombs that prise. That means what you exists only in the form of in- hav% jtheir request granted to serv« still true. It states that the root administration, and repeal em- nobody is ever arrested for. do you do for money. Well, man who was going to "show" vestments which might be their "sentences in the six counties cause of the trouble is the par- ergency legislation; a declara- However the election idea what is good: for the goose is the miners by offering his bot- nationalised any day, aadwfcich The, students also passed a reso- tition of Ireland. That partition tion by the English Government tom for a licking. For that is was allowedktp drop, Tim Tories good for the gander. If garages lution; pledging support to the si* of their intention te work for eCM&ld r$8j>e tfee; prices during .the ces* as much as they are worth what he would have got, had he dare nofcgjget $ H^h, so to defeat!. building workers' receftljly jailed at) the ending of partition and the called the much - advertised they hacffta. him. peirpl shortage, Arabs,;.-;'raise Salop Crown Court for picketing What is wanted is a complete complete withdrawal of all Bri- General Election. Whitelaw "mm s^e^oncilia- the# prices during an cfil offences. They caJte<| fpr the drop- and total change of policy. If tish forces in Ireland ; and that tory noises. The 'IfeSBft plan shortage, fishmongers raise ping of the chaises -against RESOLUTION For just over a week there armaments were slashed, if the the Labour Party should end bi- was at least looked at. And the their prices when the wind eighteen other workers now on triart was a flurry of speculation. His principal industries were na- in connection with the same events H£ following is the text of a partisanship and fight the Tories pollsters discovered a majority blows great guns, banks record resolution submitted by the nibs was going to the country tionalised in a socialist manner, T on the Irish as on all other is- on the issue of who rules it, the in favour of Labour — which 50 per cent profits as a result standing committee of the Connolly sues. of - inflation created for.thensjost if the resourced of. this country Association to the National Council Government or the miners. It anybody who travelled the (which are vasH were de- part Tjy themselves, wiy sfcfliuld OXFORD APPEAL for Civil Liberties, ft is of course was not really a good tactic. country knew, was there all the veloped for' use by the people •the isinets be tfoft mj^gs wfcen subject to amendment and may be IT is clear therefore that the What the miners wanted to do time. who live here, in a word, if TO LABOUR defeated either changed or un- coal is short ? We dttn't: Ive "Declaration" is still right on was to get more money, not rule Everybody realised that Heath there was a socialist instead of hanged. Our purpose in publishing the ball. the country. They were not re- had a "thing" about the miners. under socialism. We live under a capitalist policy, then the PARTY nt is that it may be useful to others capitalism. And the Tories want Below we give a list of orga- motely trying to rule the coun- And he can't grasp one simple crisis could be conjured away mHE following letter l\as been who are thinking of submitting nisations which have signed re- try. They were trying to get fact. It is that though he cap to. keep it that way. never to return. The • crisis •*• addressed by the Oxford Com- resolutions to other organisations. cently. This is in addition to the more money, and were employ- eat oysters he can't dig coat. It is no use Heath huffing is not somethhing / extran- mittee for Community Relations, t» PHIS conference congratulates previous list, and is miles from ing perfectly legal methods' The And if you can't dig coal your-: and puffing. He may feel like eous that has "happened to" the Oxford Constituency Labour T the officers and stall of the complete. Perhaps Connolly As- election campaign might begin self you must, if you want, it, Henry the Second who wished capitalism. It is a crisis of Party: N.C.C.L. on the quantity and qua- sociation Branches would send make it worth somebody's all his subjects had only one capitalism, just as spots are an Dear Sirs,—The Executive Com- "who rules the country", but lity of their work for the safeguard- in their forms as soon as pos- while to dig it for you. head so that he could cut it off. inevitable concomitant ' of the mittee for Community Relations at | WELL, WATCH MR. HEATH EAT THEM might end up "how is the coun- ing of the rights and liberties of sible : A.U.E.W. London (North) Now the miners say the But it comes back to the same measles. ., . its meeting of December 10th, 1SW try ruled", and there was the citizens residing in the six counties District Committee, A.U.E.W. t IHIttl l«f 11tttstl lit M Mltklllltd Mil Mirttltlltltri Mf »ltll*lf Mttr^ money they get foi1 digging coal' thing. Whatever he wishes, he received a report from one of its »f Northern Ireland, and on the stark fact that the Tories were And it is as well to add here Constructional Seen. (Scaftold- is not worth digging it for. So can't dig coal. representatives on the N art heat publicity they have obtained in ex- in power, and look at the mess. that the policy towards,..Ireland ers' Branch), A.U.E.W. (Park sixteen thousand of them left Ireland Civil Rights (Oxf«*# posing the evils which exist in that pursued by the Tories is pre- Campaign on the recent fact-find- Royal), A.U.E.W. (Stoke New-
THE IRISH DEMOCRAT February 1974 February 1974 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT TWENTY-SIX COUNTIES ROCKS BEFORE SUNNINGDALE SHIP THE YEAR TIME FLIES J'HE developing reactions of I^OR the Coalition has not only i'THE Coalition Minister for ists, and it is only some confused WORDS LOST A rump of mediocrities Fianna Fail to the Sunning- 1 revivified Fine Gael, it also Justice. Mr Cooney, has and muddle-headed people who try AST month we advertised Ule Agreement will be an import- gives a chance of revival for Fianna people arrested one day and then to make out that it is the cause of L that Madge Davison, of i:it aspect of politics ir. the coming Fail—if it can solve its problems released the next to help Mr Faulk- Republican violence. IRA policy THEIR MEANING JOHN MCCLELLAND ON THE BREAK-UP OF UNIONISM N.I.C.R.A., was coming to tour '.•lonths. and work out new policies and ner over political hurdles. He has never sought legitimation from Britain in March, lecturing on V leadership in opposition. threatens to close premises and Mr De Valera's Constitution, while THE "Sunday Press' recently car- agORTHERN IRELAND, with the situation in the six coun- restrictions. Petrol has not been and the proposed Council of Ire- ties. We asked that those who With the Party out of Govern- Hence the talk in the ranks of dwelling houses where IRA men get from the South's point of view • ried some 1973 Questions of the by far the highest unem- so-called Democratic Unionists. a problem to the motorist. The land in particular was the thought they could organise ment there is vigorous stirring in "getting back to first principles," help by using the Offences Against there is nothing inconsistent be- ployment in the United King- If this was to happen then Year from politically important well-managed shortage ensures meetings should write in so the ranks. The Ministers of yester- the open criticism of Fianna Fail the State Act, and Messrs Faulkner tween claiming a right on the one moment of truth for the Ultras, there would be little doubt who people. They reminded one vividly dom, has been "cushioned" from that petrol stations sell more that we could arrange the year look less important and more policies in Government and the and Bradford chime in appreciation hand and ruling out a particular led by the Orange Order and of how the prevailing mood in poli- the worst effects of number petrol, more quickly than ever. would be the leader for Paisley itinerary. The dates will be fallible. Mr Lynch is no longer the search for relevance and popular from Belfast. means of enforcing that right on tics sways and changes according the Wise Men from the West, ten's madhouse policies. The The station can close early dwarfs the rest. March 17th-24th. Will C.A. miracle-working Taoiseach who car- appeal. Mr De Valera from retire- Some Coalition Ministers wonder the other. John Taylor and Harry West. to changing events — and may treatment of mass unem- Occasionally, his organisation branches send in their requests ried all before him, but the man ment is said to take considerable whether more might be done to change again in the weeks and shock now, knowing that all the car The real importance of the vote ployment which the Tories takes time off from politics. Last quickly as time flies. who lost the election for Fianna interest in this process. bolster up Faulkner's position, for Hence proposals to abandon the months ahead. tanks are full, thus saving in of the Unionist Council was not Fail and who made such a public determined to apply to the week they held a protest outside In February the Party's, Ard on him depends the ratification of Irish claim to unity are simul- The quotations were appropriately seem wages and overheads. Some of the defeat of Gerry Fitt's senior mess of the Littlejohn affair. He the Sunningdale Agreement and taneously proposals to recognise the British people in order to black- a Belfast theatre showing the Fheis will be held, when the mem- headed, "The Year Words Lost the cheekier stations refuse to partner but the fact that the may not continue long to lead the the setting-up of the proposed legitimacy of Britain's sovereignty mail the miners would hardly modern musical "Jesus Christ in the large textile machinery bers will get a chance of publicly Their Meaning", and here are some sell less than a fixed amount. Unionist Party was formally Party, so the other possible con- Council of Ireland. Southern pub- in Ireland. This is something the examples which show whys— the desired effect in this Superstar." They claimed that it manufacturers, Mackie's, be- tenders for the office are beginning pressing their views. It is likely have •t is just as well the super- and irretrievably split into lic opinion begins to get worried people in the South will not stand "I wouldn't support any arrange- part of the world. was blasphemous, so the title cause of intimidation. to move to stake their claims for that the Sunningdale Agreement markets have not been able to two fragmented and demented will figure prominently. and national feeling strengthens in for, however anxious to oblige ment in which the possibility of the will have to be changed to "Ian support. Fianna Fail. might be some members of the Just now, Westminster rates fool the population to the same camps. The management of Mackie's Paragraph 5 of the Sunningdale reunification of Ireland was not a Paisley Superstar." Many people believe that Messrs Southern Coalition, egged on by very low in the esteem of a extent or we would all be How the mighty have fallen. and the trade union officials Communique has already generated very important feature."—Taoiseach QESMOND BOAL, a former Going into opposition has given Cosgrave, FitzGerald and O'Brien an increasingly harassed Faulkner. very large section of the popu- shaped like camels. Still, petrol have been unable to obtain doubt in the Party ranks. Mr Jack Lynch, January 7th, 1973. Faulkner is now a leader with- colleague of Paisley's, life to Fianna Fail—life in the would be willing, if they could, to Thus various rocks lie in wait for or electricity shortages are not Lynch has welcomed the Sunning- ir it ir lation of Northern Ireland, so out a party and the Unionist startled the Unionist world (all evidence of intimidation. There sense of an infusion of interest change the Constitution to aban- the Sunningdale ship—the strain- the most pressing problems con- dale proposals as a whole, but "Groups such as the S.D.L.P. if there was any increased ten- Party is a party without a are none so blind . . . from below. The ordinary mem- don the claim of the Irish people ing loyalties of Faulkner's em- six counties of it) by suggesting confesses himself as being worried should stop irresponsibly leading sion due to additional unemploy- fronting Brian Faulkner. The leader. And there seems to be bers and the Cumann and commit- to rightful rule over the whole battled supporters, the threats to that the real solution to our But the blind spot of the on Paragraph 5. Does it indicate their supporters up the garden path ment caused by an induced fuel Chief Executive and the mighti- an unusual reluctance to take I ! tee men had little influence when country. This is a claim directed the Fitt-Faulkner Coalition from a problems could be found within no more than what Irish Govern- by pretending that North-South shortage, then the expected tar- est Unionist of all has finally month award must go to Bishop .! their Party was in Government, but at the British Government, of possible election in Britain and not on the job. Harry West, the an all-Ireland framework. While ments have always said was their unity is possible"—Mr Brian Faulk- been pushed off his tightrope Philbin, who was given wide $1 they have far more of a say now course, to counter Britain's claim least the shifts in the ranks of get for abuse would not be the leader in the Assembly, has he did not outline in detail his policy—that they had no intention ner, January 11th, 1973. base. Defeated by the ultra Press coverage for a speech he their leaders have lost an election. to exercise that right. Fianna Fail. The vessel itself looks miners. been quoted as saying that he thoughts on future government ! Kevin Boland, Neil Blaney and of trying to unite Ireland by coer- it it it Loyalists inside the Unionist made in the Manchester Irish T T • is a claim which has never rickety indeed and it would be "It is time to give a blunt public would prefer to run his farm. of this area within an Amalga- Paudge Brennan did not take all cion? Or does it go further, by At present, industry continues Party, he now finds himself Centre. * been directed, in any hostile foolish to bet too much on it ever warning to Mr Whitelaw. Stormont But it is this experience with mated Ireland, his initiative "dissidents" with them out of the' conceding the right of Britain to more or less normally, except without a party—a political or- sense, against the Northern Union- reaching port! was brought down largely because dumb animals which could must be welcomed as the first According to the Bishop, all Party. There are many political rule the North and so implicitly that overtime is to be kept at phan fostered by the S.D.L.P. undermining the constitutional of Catholic alienation from Faulk- swing the balance in his favour. recognition by a leader of our trouble is caused by the nationalists around the country a minimum and shops and and the Alliance Party. ner and what he stood for. You THE Unionist Party is now underground armies. .1, 1 : who remained in Fianna Fail over claim to national unity and inde- offices must observe electricity Unionist opinion that British in- I the past four years, hoping that the pendence? are mad If you believe that a new, There is no doubt the little left in the hands of genuine terests and Irish interests are acceptable administration can be While the tactics and methods Party would reassert its national- Mr Kevin Boland's constitutional monster Co. Down fox will be working political mediocrities, indeed, not quite in line. ism. If political Republicanism built around the same Faulkner."— overtime (regardless of the the lack of ability in his oppo- of the people who were the main action has helped underline these and Company, political supporters While opinions and parties was strongly developed in the rpHE half - finished Central Mr Austin Currie, January 31st, target of the Bishop's concen- doubts. So did the statements of the Fianna Fail Party, and WOLFE TONE power crisis) to establish a new nents was the main factor which country, whether through Aontacht Bank building is a mon- 1973. change rapidly in No/them Ire- trated attack could be criticised, from Brian Faulkner and Oliver responsible during the 1960s for base for himself. allowed Faulkner to last as Eireann, Official Sinn Fein or other- it it it land, many other aspects of life Napier calling for more explicit ster in concrete towering over much of Dublin's office block boom. BUT life can never be the long as he did. The brightest and indeed have been criticised wise, they might have moved over "The majority no longer have remain the same. Catholics are "recognition" by Dublin of Partition Dame Street in the heart of There will be many a chuckle STATEMENT ON same again for Faulkner asset the Party has left is its severely by many people on the there. If Labour had spurned the any Justification whatsoever for still being burnt out of their and for "more vigorous" cracking- Dublin. Like the crazy struc- around Dublin if they have to pull and his kind. The divisions in name. Unfortunately, this will nationalist and democratic side; fruits of Coalition and stood for fears about the Border."—Mr Wil- homes in Rathcoole and Glen- down on the IRA. tures which Alice saw in Won- the thing down. Seemingly they the conclusion arrived at by the national principle, as it opposed the liam Whitelaw, March 21st, 1973, the Unionist Party created by still bring in votes from tradi- Mr Cosgrave and his colleagues derland this latest assault upon got "verbal assurances" from the SUNNINGDALE gormley, the Army still places Bishop that they are responsible Common Market, it too would have speaking on the White Paper. its confrontation with demo- tional Orange supporters while stay mum on the relevant para- the city's skyline is being, they Corporation Planning _ Department 90 per cent of its weight around for our troubles would not bear benefited from the erosion of it it it THE Dublin Wolfe Tone Society cracy have been plastered over sectarian politics flourish in the Pi"; graph, as if fearing that explana- that they could build* to what Catholic throats, Catholic chil- I'.;.;,: Fianna Fail. As it is, Fianna Fail tell us, constructed from the top rejects the assertion of the in the past, while there was still six counties. examination by any impartial 8'., tion would shatter its careful am- height they liked, for after all who "Inherent in the White Paper is dren are still being arrested support was much less reduced down! Taoiseach, Mr Cosgrave, that, the a flicker of hope of re-establish- judge. It can only be assumed biguity. But this only serves to would dare challenge the Central the recognition of the fact that There has been talk of closer daily—forcing Paddy Devlin to than it might have been. This at any rate is the ex- Partition has failed."—Mr Jack Sunningdale Agreement does not ing the Party in its former role, that the Bishop either is in a fuel the public doubts. Bank? But now the organised links or even some form of leave his "Ministerial" duties to planation offered for the extra- Lynch, March 21st, 1973. represent compromise on "basic as- i.e., chief agents of British rule state of confusion or is using his T written permission $ being quoted amalgamation between the protest about Army methods, j ordinary protilrberanee 200 feet pirations." The 1937 Constitution in Nortta Ireland. inlluence to stimulate support and it tells a different sCory. Dr it it It Official Unionist Party, Van- and Catholics are being forced over the street which has got "There is also the question of binds the Irish Government and for the present Stormont agency. S t Whitaker is said to be suffering But Sunningdale in general guard Unionists and -Paisley's An Taisce and the amenity internment, and the S.D.L.P.'s suc- clearly states that the national ter- to leave their newly found jobs : t Boa I goes Nationalist much at the thought of the public ritory consists of the whole island In their hearts the Cafftolie societies in a rage. This is the money which would be wasted if cess at the polls strengthens our of Ireland- By registering this agree- people (and a growing number R DESMOND BOAL'S proposal say they are entitled to in de- steel and concrete platform a few floors had to come down. It determination to have it ended ment the U.N., the Irish Gov- of Protestant people) know' the M for North-South unity within ciding what the political structures from which the glass walls of will be interesting to see if the Gov- before any Executive comes Inte a federal Ireland has aroused a lot of such a united Ireland should be. being."—Mr Ivan Cooper, July 2nd, ernment confirms Britain's constitu- never failing source of all our the building ate meant even- ernment gives in. tional position on the status of the of interest. Does it indicate a sig- It was indeed tragic, said the The Coalition Government's 1973. political evils. nificant movement of grass-roots I.S.M, that at a time when Mr Boal tually to hang — supported like North and her practical control record on planning has been mixed. it it it over the area. This is clearly a com- Unionist opinion, as its welcome by should point such a hopeful way a crane from the .top rather "I am In absolute agony and con- NE evening last August the than upheld oh pillars at the It was a plus when Mr Tully promise position By which was the base for the summer the UVF might indicate? Mr John forward, the Irish Foreign Minister, stopped the Corporation building tinuous agony over the problem of O little village of Ballyandreen, camps. Taylor and other leaders of the Dr Garret FitzGerald, should be bottom. • Northern Ireland which I find se Ballycotton, witnessed a strange new offices under Christ Church In return for basic concessions on This society which has been har- LCITEC "Loyalists" have not condemned it blindly reiterating-his belief that But the building is 30 feet higher difficult to understand." — Prime sight. A group of young men were JIM SAVAGE and said the area would be kept Irish national aspirations, the gov- nessing the skills of students to outright. Does it show some of Britain has nothing to do with than the Planning Laws say it Minister—Edward Heath, October seen to load a minibus with heavy r for housing and a park. It was a ernment and S.D.L.P. negotiators assist other social organisations, them a way out of their present im- Partition and that it was entirely should be. The Central Bank and minus when the same Minister 11th, 1973. were promised a Council of Ireland camping equipment to the accom- lend his help to provide a holiday reoently purchased a house in the HHHE problem of Northern Ire-' passe. In one form or another it "a matter for Irishmen". their architects have broken the wrote round to the Local Authori- in which Britain's interests will be paniment of good-humoured banter for Ballymurphy children. seaside vHlage of Ballyandreen, land grows daily more urgent.. is likely to be heard of again. ' The greatest weakness of the conditions of the planning permis- which from time to time provoked ties before Christmas to tell them development plans to guide their "safeguarded" even if she is not to The break-through was made pos- Ballycotton, which houses some of What, if anything, can be The Republicans, Official and Sunningdale Agreement, in fact, sion they received. By right they to be less stringent in refusing decisions, but the granting of plan- be "directly" represented. This gales of laughter. its activities. Student Community done. In this I feel that the was that it purported to treat the should tear the top 30 feet down sible through the hazardous work Provisional, have welcomed it and planning permission for develop- ning permission can add thousands agreement implies that Britain will The minibus, which had Just Action Is a very practical contribu- responsible attitude and state- British presence in Ireland as and go back to the plans which of Intercommunication set up by it has caused no little embarrass- ment, as too many appeals were Of pounds to the value of land over- continue to use all her military and arrived from Belfast, was the pro- tion to the social movement in Cork ments of the largely- Catholic something neutral, whereas histori- they originally submitted. The the Ballymurphy youth ulMder In ment to some Southern supporters, coming in to the Minister. This night. At present in the Republic financial power to maintain the con- perty of Agnes Street Youth Club, city and Is welcome evidence of the Socialist and Democratic Labour cally this presence has acted as a Corporation has ordered the Bank Belfast He had arranged With the of Sunningdale. . The "two-nation was widely taken as opening the there is talk of setting up a Board stitutional .status quo. The Society Shankill Road and its next stop growing concern ef young people Party offers, some hope. Few catalyst setting up reactions to pre- to stop construction and the Bank, Association the visit of the 8hanklll theorists" and Dr Cruise O'Brien way to a flood of indiscriminate which would settle appeals relating believes that this means that the was across the border in Bally- Road youth clubs. The 8hankill In for the social problems which thsy will deny that leaders like Gerry vent Irish people of different out- through its governor, Dr T. K. see around them. Fitt, Paddy Devlin, etc., are not must wonder how to square it with development throughout the coun- to planning permission, rather than Council cannot possibly progress to- murphy, Belfast gratitude had sent its minibus and their fancies. In a time of chang- looks and traditions from realising Whitaker, is currently hoping the try. passing them to a Minister of Gov- wards a meaningful all-Ireland only working class but Socialist. When it had been revealed to the representatives to transport the ing moods and shifting political their common Irishness and work- Government will let it go ahead. ernment, who is bound to be open political and administrative role. Its ever-extended supporting hand Like other Socialists who love Will the Government uphold the Cork-based Association for Human equipment for the Ballymurphy positions it is something Worth ing together for the good of all. nV"0 one can change the use of to political pressure. Only a declaration of intent by Bri- is a welcome sight amidst the often Ireland, I feel that peace/ isn't planning laws or let the Central Rights In the North that the holi- children's summer came*. At our futile surfeit of polemics and philo- analysing, as the Irish Sovereignty I OYALISTS and Republicans 11 property or build anything "on tain to withdraw from Irish affairs enough, the quality of life is also 'J were not present at Sunning- Bank flout them openly like this? The Central Bank building scan- day hopes of Ballymurphy children suggestion the Shankill Community sophy which pervade* the social Movement did in an interesting or over or under" the land without could have given it real purpose important This means Socialism. dale. How then could they be ex- iTPHE architects seem to be the dal and how it will be settled will had been frustrated by an accident, Council had presented a magnifi- movement The Ballymurphy youth statement. getting planning permission, in Ire- and direction in the context of the pected to support an agreement people mainly responsible. be important pointers as to Whether it had turned to friends on the oent trophy to the Ballymurphy leaders' report on their summer This is where the S.DJLP can The I.S.M. welcomed the "realism land as in England. Corporations development Of new political struc- when, because of deliberate British They are Messrs Sam Stephenson or not the planning system will im- Shankllt Road, Belfast, to loan a Festival in August, while* in return, camps mentions spooiftoally the play a part. Their public state- and vision" of Mr Boal's proposal. tures and alliances. Discussion and policy, they were unable to contri- and County Councils have official prove with the Coalition. minibus tb' oonvey camping equip- our Association made an approprl- part played by 8tudents Community ments have tried to play down His realism was shown by the grow- decision-making in the Council, will 1 bute to its making? Members of 7 ment to Ballymurphy, and thenoe at contribution to the . funds of Action, as did Alf Midgisy, the the sectarianism. They can also ing evidence that the Sunningdale also be hampered by the rule on the Irish Government and the to the Ballymurphy oamp at Glen- the Council. Shankili Read youth leader, when claim to be the only party in tftfe Agreement, with Its provision for a unamity which Is a false guarantee S.D.L.P. were well aware of the oolmollte pa. Donegal. thanking those who helped them province that is Socialist, demo- Northern Executive which was not of the tights of the Protestant IE holiday youth otanp based defects of the Sunningdale Cattle producers condemn the E.E.C. during their stay. cratic. anti-sectarian with a elected, but appointed by the people of the North. This will have The fcrtw of the minibus consisted Ton Bailyandreen differed from firm working-class Support. "package" but they said that it of one Batlynwrphy and one Shan- British Government, was being im- i^HERE is bitter disillusionment only to nod to the bank tnnnnrriri result is consternation the effect-of giving the power of earlier schemes of the Association must be accepted "as a whole" be- 1 kill youth Mder together with two i Unfortunately .to date, this posed against the wishes of the among IrWh cattle farmers for loans to be forthcoming. Thou- Irish cattle farmers. veto t*. the .Faulknerite Unionists for Human Rights.In the North In cause failure to do so would result helpers, both members of the working-class support has largely majority of Northern Loyalists and about the E&O. For hundreds of sands of fanners went be*rily Into Of them are sorry they aup- and will instead guarantee that the fhat the youth clubs constituted Doesn't sleep out in the fall of Mr Brian Faulkner as U.D.A, one of whom was an area been Catholic. ItV. now up to could- open no genuine road to a millions of P9uhd4 ,-bavei been debt. '. •>} '•?' the E.E.C. Outside the EJE.C. Council not become involved organised units supervised by their the head of the mm mMptfte. commander liv that organisation. A OCORDINO to "Atticus" of the the S.DJLhP. to. win Protestant' stable peace. He showed vision knocked off the valuei
February 1974 THE IRISH DEMOCRAT THE IRISH DEMOCRAT Ftbfwwy 1974 IRISH SONGS AN SPAILPIN FANACH THE BOYS OF THE BOYS OF THE CARLETON dee de© aris ni raghad go Caiseal "Traits and Stories of the Irish ^ Ag diet na ag reic mo shlainte Allegations of genocide KILMICHAEL Peasantry", by William Car- Na ar mhargadh na saoire im* shui cois balta Society on the Run", by open expression of sympathy for and children to find out the effects leton (Mercier, 4 vols., 65p Im scaoinse a rleataoibh sraide. HEN you honour in song and OLD BRIGADE Rona M. Fields (50p; Rona the common people would render always strong against the perpetra- of the crisis on them make in- tors of the death of the funeral each). Bodairi na tire ag teacht ar a goapall W story QH, father, why are you so sad M. Fields, Penguin Educa- the writer incapable of an objec- tive study. teresting reading easily under- victim. When the perpetrators "The Autobiography of Wilhani Da thiafrai an bhfuilim hiralta The memory of Pearse and McBride, tion). standable to the layman. One in- On this fine Easter morn, have been British soldiers, and the Carteton" (Macgibbon & Kee, 0 teanaam chun siuil ta an cursa fada Whose names are illumined in glory teresting discovery that Dr Fields With martyrs who long since have N a discussioa on her book at fyHE book then deals with tech- casket is covered with the tri- Seo ar siul an Spailpin Fanach. When Irishmen are proud and glad i made was that children in both £2). died, The Arts Club, Dublin, Dr Rona niques of interrogation, its colour, the symbol of Republican north and south of Ireland are very ILUAM CARLETON'S sket- Forget not the boys of Kilmichael, Of the land where they were born ?" Fields, of Clarke University, Wor- effects and a visit to Long Kesh. The defeat becomes a reminder of the Im Spailpin Fanach fagadh mise much more articulate, than the lists of battles, martyrs and griev- ches (they are hardly start*si Those brave tads so gallant and true, cester, Massachusetts, compared the author deals with the aims of the W "Oh, son, I see a memory's view children of any group in America ances. The presence of the mili- have a unique interest as deoM- Ag seasamh ar mo shlainte, Who fought 'neath the green flag Actions of the British Government Prison authorities towards the except the upper middle class, tary, getting in the way of the pro- mente for life in Ireland during Ag siul an dru«hts go moch ar maidin, of Erin ' Of a far distant day and Army ia Northern Ireland to prisoners, to cause as much dissen- who she said would be about on the cession and the view of the by- the «r»t ttme decades of the 's ag bailui galair raithe. And defeated the Red, White and the Nazi extermination of the Jews. sion among them as possible, to When being just a boy like you same level. stander serves as a reminder that union with England, in a prose Ni theicfear corran im' laimh chun bainte, Blue. The operating systems which encourage fights and to remain I joined the I.R.A." neither life nor death can transpire which is attertgtMMd rather than Suiste n afeac beag rainne, t\i\e historically resulted in the aloof if they occurred. Periodically A NOTE towards the end of the CHORUS: a rebellion is produced among the without the intrusion of the con- defeenwd fey Latin and Irish ete- Ach bratacha na bhFranneach os cionn mo leapan destruction of a people are in book indicates how thoroughly querers." metds "and a narrative CHORUS • prisoners by reducing the quantity Is pice agam chun saite. Then here's to the boys of operation in Northern Ireland." Dr Fields had grasped the funda- strongly Influenced by tho and quality of food. The inevitable mental reality of Northern Ire- Kilmichael Where are the lads who stood with me The book was the result of re- In conclusion Dr Fields admits storytelling In which CarMwi% protest is quelled by troops in full land. Mo chuig cead sian chun duiche m athar Who feared not the might of the search and community work of two that her mission with her group of father was an adept they encap- foe, When history was made, years' duration in Derry and Bel- riot gear smashing heads in with Agus Chun an oilealn gramhair, batons, destruction of personal American friends and helpers was sulate a vanishing Hfe-styte, The day that they went into battle t.ist. In the discussion Dr Fields "In September-October there was Is chun buaicbaHli na Culach os diobh na mhiste Oh, Gra Macree, I long to see property and clothes. a failure. People who use the achieving for their period, feut wMt and laid all the Black and Tans alleged that the director of Com- a series of funerals in the same hi aimsir costa an gfearda. The Boys of the Old Brigade. area and the shooting which material in her book and follow tar greater fidelity In detail, Wtut low. munity Relations Mr David Row- It is interesting that when giving her persistent exposures and at- the historians Keating and OVI|- Ach aneis e taimse im chadhan bhochi dhealbh in-ds wrote to the book's publishers erupted at each funeral resulted in the British soldier's point of view the deaths of several more residents tacks on British imperialism in Ire- Mrty feed attempted for the sevm- Imease na nduichi fain seo On the twenty eighth day of "From hill and glen the call to arms to get certaia passages removed. land, in talks at meetings on Radio November, this author finds the soldier feels in the area. The behaviour of the MentM century. 'Se mo chumha croi mar fuair me an ghairm, Before going Osn to consider the he is also in a cage surrounded by Eireann and Telefis Eireann, will Bheith riamh im Spailpin Fanach. The Tans left the town of Was heard by one and all, published book in detail, it is im- troops during times of funerals is the men, women and children of tormentors. an example of the grossest pro- agreed her visit was worthwhile. Macroom, And from the glen came brave young men portant to quote a key passage the ctogtier valley in Tyrone art They came in two Crossley tenders The experimental tests on adults vocation to violence. Emotions are Is robhrea is cuimhin Horn mo dhaoine bheith sealad which upset the British Govern- Q.G. found conversing, rejoicing, morn- And swiftly they sped to their To answer Ireland's eall. Thia ar droichead Chaile, ment and which was therefore re- ing, sinning, remitting, courting, doom; fighting and worshipping, living out Fe bhuai, fe chaorai, fe laoi bheaga gheala 'Twas long ago we faced the foe, moved. They set off on the road to .'Although this sophisticated ex- their days merrily enough without Agus capaill ann le h-aireamh. Kilmichael , The Old Brigade and me, schools, poor law, constabulary, Acht b'e toil Chriest e gur cuireadh sinn asta, periment in psychogenic genocide But the lads they were there on And by my side they fought and died his not yet reached completion it Parnell's uncrowned Queen banks, civil rights or any other evt- Is go ndeaghamhar i leith ar slainte, the spot, is possible to assess its efficacy, in denoe, except for the occaftfemft Is garbh e bhris mo chroi i ngach tir rachainn That Ireland might be free." $ight of a gibbet, that their rulers The Irish Republican Army more primitive and obvious "Charles Stewart Parnell", by ted in an upper-class Englishwoman "Call here, you Spailpin Fanach." Made a clean sweep of the lot. to "My own Wifie" and "My were aware of their existence. fashion, Hitler's scientific disposal Katherine O'Shea (Cassell, of her time. She would have been re- darling Queenie". "And now, my boy, I've told you why teams managed - in eight years to markable had she been free of these The sun in the west it was sinking, £2.50). Ironically, the person who comes pARtCTON'S own early life, as On Easter morn I sigh, reduce the World's Jewish popula- prejudices, but it does further 'Twas tin eve of a cold winter day T SHALL try to be just. Before out of this book best is —Captain ^ described in his unfinished For I recall my country's thrall tion to less than half. limit her capacity to enlighten us When the 'Tans we were eagerly all else let it be remembered O'Shea. VMn, venial and conven- autobiography, can be road as a From dark old days gone by. on Pamell's work. >• THE ROSE OF ARANMORE waiting However they wore dealing with that Katherine O'Shea inspired tional, he is at least three-dimen- gloss on tbe society depioted in Ms If this book does Utile to inter- Sailed inte the trap where we lay; I think of men who fought in glen a larger geographical distribution and sustained Parnell's passionate sional. fiction. He moved In a world in kJV thoughts today, though I'm far away, dwell on Tirconnatll's pret the polities of the day. it does And over the hills went the echo With rifles and grenade, a ad a war of aggression against a devotion over, a period of eleven Anyone making a special study which want and insecurity wart m less to make Parnell the man com- shore, The peal of the rifle and gun, May heaven keep the men who sleep lumber of other Natibnal powers. years—that alone entitles her to our of Pamell and his period must widespread in the midst of plenty, prehensible. He ©merges as strange, The salt sea air and the colleens fair of lovely green G wee do re. And the flames from the lorries From the ranks of the Old Brigade." Though they could afford to be respect. Let us remember also that obviously read this book. where Orange tyranny was «M> cold and arrogant. Obviously he There's a flower there beyond compare that I'll treasure ever more, gave tidings more obvious in designing an she served what she understood to P. lenged by the ntaBatfett hysteria had a great love of the Irish people That the boys of the Column trad eSeient system, they could not put be his true needs to the limit of of WWtenism. and whan the fetirtt That grand colleen in l»er gown of green, she's the Rose of Aranmore. and a great pity for their sufferings, won. as much effort into carrying it out. her, ability, that too is good and of wbaarvtence was rapidly w not for nothing was he bom to the I've travelled far'neath the Northern Star since I ftrst said goodbye, In assessing the difference, it is honourable. But this book left me tinguiaMng national The lorries were ours before twilight year of the Famine, but tWs is of And seen many maids in (be golden glades beneath a tropic sky, worth noting that the experiment with a sad, sour taste. Like many Ivory And high o'er P unman way town BEAUTIFUL IRELAND small interest to Kafcherine O'Shea. As the son of a Catholic farmer in Northern Ireland is being carried other readers of the "Irish Demo- But there's a vision in my memory that I always will adore- Our banners in triumph Were waving Rather we are enclosed,, in their "A Ball of Malt and Madame of some means Garteton had | 0 :t on a smaller budget and that crat", I imagine, I have been y That grand colleen in her gown of green, the Rose of Aranmore. To show that the Tans had gone (One of the many ballads from the pen of Charles Joseph Kiekham.of mutual devotion, a love-so.-fieroely Butterfly", by Benedict Kiely nhftifld aaf — ma#Am iiinaM'i'iyBfc'" other nation* are aiding with brought up to regard the way in Tipperary, a stalwart of the Young Ireland and, Fenian movements) egocentric that it excluded (Goliancz, £2.60), wflitmiv m iw pdins to respeour I will return again to (fee scenes I loved so well, materials and'supplies. which the Irish people in great We gathered our rifles and bayonets, others. 'rpH® Kiely variant of the Irish billty, fH# priesthoodof • For example, their N.A.T.O. numbers, though not in its entirety, Where many an Irish lad and lass their tales of love do tell; And soon left the glen so obsoure "THEY speak of a land where the toller short story is well exempUfied • piwmi or |miu&i wmvovr Commitments, C.& gas and rubber betrayed Pamell, as a national QHE describes Parnell missing The silvery dunes and lilve lagoons along the Rosses shore, And never drew rein till we halted Can build him a free, happy home; in this dozen. Its particularity lies P®^®*. sc^^ol^v* tho cfasss bullets manufactured in the United shame too burning for speech. I meetings where hundreds AflftMMt grand colleen in her gown of green, the Rose of Aranmore. At the far-sway camp of Glenure. in the primacy of manner over cal sttMtla tf Munster Idl (peart, A land never cursed by the spoiter, States are part of the standard ex- am now not at all sure I would have awaited him because he could not matter. For example, a character after a brave beginning, proved tae tor over the wide ocean's foam; perimental ecKiipment." been on the right side, had I lived drag himself away from her. When may appear or an incident occur faint VWtfe Maynooth In aonso- Whprelippe 4»moothSthe young maidenVpitlew / ' ENOOIDB, she pointed out, was at the time. she suggested he telegrapjl his apo- logies. he replied: "You do not early in the story who or which the - queneo InaeceaaiMe ha was soon as- The tyrant's dark frown Is unknown carried out, meticulously, The dust-cover blurb tells us that learn the ethics of kingship teller forewarns us has Httle to do And freedom looks but o'er the billow bureauoratically, and through the THE FELONS OF OUR legal system. when this book was. published in Queenie. Never explain, never' apo- with what follows. Wherefore this the established onuroh anil aligi- Dan Mtirphy's For aye, l*fce a pueen on her throne. 1914 "old wounds were opened, old irrelevance? Why does a song have bility for patronage, which, bow Despite the "censorship" and lack logise; I oould never keep my disputes revived, the more bitter grace-notes? Mr Kiely is in pro- ever, yielded nothing more than a of sub-editing "A Society On The rabble together if I were not above they became, the better the book cess of acclimatizing the readot to lartks of wrotohed teaohlng posts. door CHORUS: Run'' contains the best reporting of the human weakness of apology." LAND sold." Was that really a service to whatever conditions, always strange ...His was not a glorious career. anyone who has interviewed and What a pity no-one ever told him Vet dearer to me is my siretand Parnell and all he stood for? Does and often weird, compounded ot Hit first paid writing was an attack ERE'S a sweet garden spot in lived among the people of that not only is punctuality the BILL up once more, well drink a toast to comrades far away; The emerald gem of the sea; it not rather place the author politeness of kings, but that kings myth and nostalgia, prevail in the on popish superstttjdns in Cascar r r our memory, Northern Ireland during the No nation upon earth oan boast at braver hearts than they. among those vulgar and trivial fable. Ouray's CHRISTIAN EXAMNte*. It's the ptaoe we were bern In and lliertng to my home hi o*d Ireland present crisis. Integrity, immense must make dynastic marriages; And tfeo' they sleep in dungeons deep, or flee, outlawed and banned, widows who nowadays hawk the they least of all men may marry Later he wrote patriotic pieMt far reared; 0, Ireland, I wish you were free! moral and physical courage, When pros£ is so brilliantly put Qavap Duffy's THE NATION, «nd We love them yet, we ean*t forget the felons of our land. 'Tie long years ape mm we left it, remembrance of all that was most to please themselves. to poetic purposes it may be in- honesty, profoundly, these adjec- sacred in their relationship with later still accepted a pension on the But return there we wHI n we're They tell me trf broad fields that cover tives come easily to the mind, but It comes as a shock that their sensitive to regret that Benedict understanding that (deb writing In boyhood's bloom and manhood's pride,foredoomed by alien laws, their famous deceased husbands mode of mutual address was King Kiely of Omagh seems as aloeI in Wlcfh treasures erf bright golden ore, they are no substitute for Dr Fields first serialised in the Sunday would oeawi instead of an dM» Some on Che scaffold bravely died fee Ireland's hoCy cause. Our friends and companions of own words. and Queenie. Such pride with «»eb this book from the horrible six- qious peasant he had beeomt a While hland as the lace of a lover papers and Anally in best-selling vulgarity. The two chapteis de- And brothers, say, shall we today unmoved, tike Upwards, stand childhood "They" (the people she had county reality as Maria Edgeworth venal hack. The teeming earth smiles evermore; paper-backs? voted to his incarceration in Kil- While traitors shame and toes ttefame the felons of our land. Would assemble each night near a come to try and help) "allowed me was in hers from the famine around Where safe from oppression and danger mainham jail are largely composed Carleton's creative talent into their homes and guts. The "1VTE need not delude ourselves her. of repetitious, boring love-letters to limited by the narrowness of Ms Round Oan Murphy's shop, and The children of sorrow ftnd rest, more I shared with them the more '' that this book will give us M. THOMPSON Some ill the Convicts' dreary eeil have experience. He was written Md la at And hind welcomesgtadden the stranger 1 realised how often their trust had any insight into the politics of the Anil some unseen, unfriended, fell wMbiti the tan years, yet In TRAIT* AM* On the atone met attod outside his Who eomes from the isle ot the West. been betrayed and the more time. In her preface the author But what care we, although it be m* a STORIES and, to a latter rtigroa door I • !):' afraid I became that I would un- tells us: "I have never felt the ] in the AUTOBIOGRAPHY ba God bless the clay where rest today the ftftm vt «vr lend. wittingly be a source of further be- slightest interest to politics, either A useful reference book CHORUS: When 1 hear they ate going to free her, exemplifies with a warmth of hs*rt trayal. What's more I find that I Irish or Pngi^h." We. cannot, pf Those days Pi •our hearts we wfH With Joy my Wftd heart is aglow; rence ' Wishaii £1) as a correc- to Joyce's in ULY«*S« or Let cowards mock and tyrants frown, fct), little dfi we care! love them—together and indi- course, r«p«»aeit her for her con- "Quotations from Jarn*fi: Con- efcsrfmb' ~ tive to any dogmatic acceptance of s in THE TOWER the dit- A felon's sap's the noblest crown an Irish head can wear. And tttrtul and pale when I see Iwr vidually." Only an apologist for tempt and' dislike of the Irish nolly, Part 2 : An anthology r«Mva \j onrentea, erenougn we were poor, the "Quotations". As the intention AM every Gael in firisfati who scorns the serfs vile brand, Tic fonder donder 1 grow. imperialism would say that the people; this was only to be expec- in three parts", by Derry tinctlvs particularism of And the songs that were Vang is to encourage the study and 'ap- writers, tbe attachment te F*mn Leo to *oyne would gladly join the felons of ovr land. But sleeping or walling 1 tare hef- Kelleher (price not stated; ta the days aw wer» pe»»r*. plication of Connolly's Marxist out- (tear perpetual plaoa" whloh has on Her grand vales and mountains so grand— printed by Tredagh Duplicat- look future editions should carry a baan a maife of the I rich can- Ah, painly the wMp world over ing Service, Drogheda). " fuR bibliography so that the source tetewncaa from the baginalng of l search for e lovelier fend ! When our days work Sens ever Wd Brain and body drain N preparing this selection, cover- of the Quotations oan be turned to. htotwy. MAIRE MY GIRL r «'. I ing national liberation, Irish 0. HALL I Mih uiimieMiUkMk^^b Mki^t "The Irish, Emigration, Marriage search has been mainly in fields OVER the dim blue hills strays a wild river. I ft vVW mfl loT pr ^RtiIb jlfwT illo MVnVf pitted with myth and prejudice- language, nationalism, socialism and w and Fertility", by Robert E. Over the dim biue hiUe nests my heart ever; The beys afldtha«ftft«* tegMtier Irish Catholicism, the soeiad odfccts capitalist morality, the editor's aim Fairer and dearer than jewel or pearl, tllWi Jim TVI pWnf nWOWTil KUfnO» OOWN BY THE GLENSIDE Kennedy Jr. (University of of the ascendancy system, family was to present James Cotanollj's MllkiMat, 1/kiUhlA- "Marxist" philosophy in as ctear a Dwells she In beauty there,Malta my «lrt. i#«f» vwurpny wotifa wing oown nra VAS down by the gtensWe I met an Pig dwmflj, , California Press, £4.50). planning and the dwindling Pro- Psychic phenomena In Ireland 'Mi l • r A pawning ymin« PdNHes, she ne'er heard m coming, testant numbers in the Republic. perspective as possible. The selec- • .... ' 'I HH cataclysmic effect of famines tion is welcome as an addition to "Psychic Phenomena in Ireland" clairvoyance and clairaudteace. Down upon (Maris Heath shines the soft berry, VMk hH MMM 4n#rtt* I listened a white tp iha song she was hummhit L during the tfth century on the Cold figures are adduced to show 1 the growing number of books turn- automatic writing, precognition, •n the brown harvest tree droops the red eherry, store. 't *f*•"»" ul.-ri•• that demographic changes such as by Sheila St Clair (Mercier, lory-o to the tpl« Feniao men! population of IMand makes it easy ing to the study of Connolly's works telepathy, psychometry, dowsing, Sweeter the honey Hps, softer the curi. increases in celibacy and emigra- 75p). The mUMe dM ring end sWiOtvongs , •:> r. •' ! . • . < to forget other factors which con- particularly by young Irish men levitation and apparitions. Straying a-down thy cheeks, Maire my firi. tion are related to historical changes ' wo would eing - * • tributed to the paradoxical pattern and women. UHEILA 8T CLAIR carefully de- In a lively, cool manner she Th Any lung years slnee t caw the moon beaming of heavy emigration and delayed in the means of production, namely On theetene outside Dan Murphy's The "Irish Democrat" continues ^ marcates her field of interest describes horrific watches in OW- Twas on an April eve that I first met her; stioeig mmffy forms WMNin eyes wtth hope beaming, marriage balance^ by an exception- the transition from manual methods • deer I , ,i.•••?>».«• • •• > •••• /•• Connolly's tradition of explaining from the neighbouring one Of hali, the haunted mansion near Many an eve shall pass e'er I forget her; Hhb mm agpfrt, sui%; thHMgh ill my daydreaming. ally large ramliy size. Robert E. to the extensive use of horse in Back again will our thought* of|en the Irish to the English working demonology: her concern, she In- Dromore, Co. l>ewn, and ^rtdil Since my young heart has been wrapped in a whirl, 0«d»y«,|l6ry-o to the bottl Fenian men I Kennedy's book is thfe first attempt agriculture in the 1840s and the in- ; class, quoting Desmond Oreaves sists, is not with the supernatural on the natuifa ;il'' >p#IMI|Mpi|l Thinking and dreaming of Maire my girl. to explain this contradiction. troduction of tractors a century T« theeoenes ef ourchildhood home, that "nothing would be more fool- but with the natural, wtth the urtde bansldhe. Pock-maitad ttMWgb It lb To the friend* and Companion* we His method is statistical, based later. To these prosaic causes (in She is too kind and Tend ever to grieve me, Some died by Che wayside,acme died 'mid the stamper, ish than to take his writi&gs as a zone of experience which is not ex- wttb tRC^J^ijj, |>;..i,.'-tVy » •>. ••• on ingenious analysis of the con- full consonance with Marxist plicable by reference to the senses. She has toe pure a heart, e'er to deceive me; An* mice men haueCeM nMhelrooase wmalMtape, bible, for quotation and exegesis. To book afa it was poverty asugad us to roam, suls fom 1834 to WW. of reports on theory)" he traces also a pheno- Her acquaintance with paiaucxuad Were I Tyr > chief or Desmond's earl, •utchey etood py ow Iwdand, and they never Wbred danger, menon often attributed to the pecu- canonise is to kill. He must be majority, and atop, to the _ auws.shep »Mm *»• po^sm ••pvvmrtiprsMe «o the WKFenton men! agricultural and Vital statistics and understood, estimated and advanced events has been extensive, stM^tter- minority who 5 dabble hi those Life »wanting Metre my |jtf(. rlraan n — rt of liarity of Catholic teaching in Ire- the facts amassed by the com- from." self claiming an inherited sensitivity matter without iOdenteadlag the praRporea,, ... .J|, land-the prevalence of tbe large J- mission on emigration and popula- In his introduction t THE IRISH DEMOCRAT February 1974 IHIS1I l\ BRITAIN T.U. BRANCH WHAT THE SAYS HANDS FREE PRESS JMMIGRATION from the West Occasionally during the tea- Indies was just beginning to SERIAL STORY break they would dispute hotly DIDN'T SAY OFF N.I.C.R.A. build up at the time 1 am writ- with him or perhaps begin AM pleased to forward a copy ing about and there were as yet by jibing at his inflexible code of ^ VERY successful Irish Con- Eof resolution on behalf of the few coloured folk in this part of behaviour; he was a great man cert was held at Acton Stoke Newington branch A.U.E.W. the Midlands. Those you saw DONALL for the Bible and could quote Town Hall. So successful was Copies sent to Mr R. Carr, Home long passages out of the various it in fact that the local paper— Secretary, and Miss S. Williams about were mostly American M.P. for the Opposition. District servicemen from the air force MacAMHLAIGH books that comprise it without which knew about it in advance Office. base at Heyford—great, strap- any effort at all. but didn't send a reporter along "HANDS OFF NORTHERN ping chaps who hit the town But often the other West —got interested after the event IRELAND CIVIL RIGHTS with their monthly payrolls and I remember, reading Terry Indians tired of this, wanting to and phoned the organisers for ASSOCIATION'' threw their money around with Coleman's absorbing book, "The devote their talking time to a report. "This Stoke Newington branch of princely abandon. They were Railway Navvies", how some what they considered more con- the A.U.E.W. views with grave regarded by the local people contemporary observer noted the genial topics like the day's rac- This is what they were told : alarm military raids on the pre- with a mixture of suspicion and silence in which the navvies ing fixtures or which were the The Connolly Association put mises and attempted intimidation envy, the envy arising out of on the concert in aid of the of executive members of the worked all day long as they dug best puba in Rugby, and then their affluence and consequent and shovelled mountains of they would turn on him like Northern Ireland Internees and M.I.C.R.A. by nightly raids on their success with the girls who ; homes. earth in what must surely have this :— their families ^tnd the cam- "As the N.I.C.R.A does not ior- flocked round them in pubs and been one of the greatest feats paign for. their bdiease. The fine dance-halls. "Ivan, man, what you always ganise or advocate violence and as of labour ever; but of course want to be talking about Moses attendance was an expression there has hitherto been no inter- By contrast the West Indians, at the pace they worked singing and Ab'ram and all these ole of support for the cause as well v ference with this organisation by when they began to arrive, or even much conversation was dead fellers for? They gawn as love for Irish traditional the security forces clearly this new music. The audience was by no seemed rather like poorer out of the question. man, they dead—they bin dead political decision must have ema- means all Irish, and notable cousins; they were anything but Wordsworth somewhere about thousands of years now and so nated from London. among those present were Joe "Thus in view of the responsibi- affluent, they wore comical the same time wrote 'that poem what you keep throwing them baggy trousers that narrowed about the solitary Highland lass Sherman, President of the lity of Westminster for security we up at us for ?" Ealing Trades Council, Alan insist this repression must cease suddenly at the ankle, two-tone who reaped and sang a "melan- "There is no death in the Rogers, President of tire South- forthwith and pledge our full sup- shoes and wide-brimmed hats. choly strain" but the lass was Lord," Ivan would solemnly port for the legitimate democratic Among the very first West probably working on her father's all Trades Council and Harry assure them and if they per- Francis, prescient qf Jhe rights of the N.I.C.R.A. Indians I got to know were the croft at her own sweet pace, sisted in their waywardness he'd "Furthermore we press for; the members of another railway unlike the unfortunate navvies Hounslow Trades Council—all immediate introduction of a Bill grow angrier and angrier with, of them English. gang who worked on the same who slogged away in a hercu- them until in the end he was of Rights for Northern Ireland" by project as ourselves just out- lean manner for upwards of 18 .the Westminster Government." dangerously close to breaking Best wishes f or the success of Yours faithfully side Rugby in a place called hours a day. his own code of non-violence. Hillmorton. These lads had just the evening were ' received K. 0. PLAYER, The West Indians on the rail- Not having any marked suc- from Nigel Spearing, M.P. Secretary, ~ . come newly to Britain and their way were more akin to the cess in the business of convert- (Acton), Sid' Bidwell. M.P. Stoke Newington racy "island lingo" was all but Highland lass in that they sang ing his own lads, Ivan got the Branch A.U.C-W. unintelligible to most of us; so (Southall), Russell Kerr," M.P. all the time, harmonising with notion at one stage that he (Feltham), and Michael Barnes, much so, in fact, that many of great sweetness. When straight- might be able to bring some Resolutions in similar terms have the chaps in our gang thought M.P. (Brentford & Chiswick). been passed by Ealing and Sunder- ening a length of newly re-laid light into the darkness which that the coloured men spoke land Trades Councils. track, for instance, they would surrounded the "white" gang, some, strange, foreign tongue of i'PHE am'ount raised was a - -Hammersmith constituency Labour time their movements to the and so, accordingly, he paid us Party passed a resolution to the their own. words of some song—usually little short of £200 and grate- a visit one dinner break just ful thanks have been received •effect that while not condoning The West Indians, it seems to one of those revivalist type as a hotly-debated game of violence they urged the Home Sec- me, have changed a lot over the hymns which the charge-hand from the Internees' Depend- retary to stop forceable feeding and 'cards was in full swing. Aghast ants'Funds. years. Much of their natural gave out in an ordinary conver- at both the bad language and transfer the hunger striking prison- gaiety and bounce seems to sational tone which the rest of ers to jails w Northern Ireland. the profligate waste, ofc money, Will you be surprised when have left them and the business the gang took up musically. Ivan took in the scene and then y/e tell you how $his. story ap- of keeping head above water in "The Lord is appearing in the launched straight intoasefpion. peared in the' next week's a society plagued with ever- sky," the charge-hand would in- "JffY friends, dear brethren," edition ? "Irish! conc#$ packs spiralling prices and pressures tone and the others repeat it he bellowed, "why do you 'em in . .- . success partly due that multiply by the day would after him, in song—much to the not walk more circumspect in to Eaiing having second-largest appear to have reduced them to CAN HAVE amusement, and even disgust, the sight Of the Lord ? To what Irish community in London... that state of subdued despera- of the members of my own end do you blaspheme and manyActonians:at tended'.which tion which seems to characterise team. squander like robbers irid den?" shows that it 'isn't only the NO BOOKS the bulk of the populace today. J>HE charge-hand was called There was a lot more in'this Irish who have an ear for a good But the gang of West Indians A T Christmas time the "Irish Ivan—'I disremember his sur- vein which I can't just recall too tune . , . Ahe President of the who worked alongside us on the -f*: Democrat" Bookshop received name now—and he was a man Ealing Trades Council attended railway were the epitome of the clearly but when that hand was a notie from an anonymous 'yell- of very rigid ideas as to what gay, light-hearted Caribbean played out one of the losers, a wisher of Noel Jenkinson, together was or Was not right and pro- folk, forever laughing and sing- Geordie chap whose surname with a pound note. The note re- per. Smoking, drinking, gamb- was Kelly, leapt to his feet and, Not a word about who organ- quested that books to the value ing. ling and,the use of bad language grabbing a shovel, routed poor ised it or why*. Only one trades 'of £1 should be sent to the Their approach to work was prisoner in Leicester Jail. were all things which Ivan Ivan, calling him a variety of council mentioned apd not one not cdl that might be desired but condemned loudly and at great names which to say the very Member qf parliament. That's Accordingly, Mr Brian Crowley, of even if it took them a. bit longer the Book Service, as an ordinary length every day; he was some- least of it were not complimen- your "free" "publish and be commercial. transaction, enclosed they always seemed to get thing of a lay preacher and be- tary. damned" Press for you. two books tp the retail value of through their quota well enough. longed to one of those obscure Ivan tended to leave us alone £1.70, regarding the business as They would accompany most of dnd rather fanatical offshoots of after that though there were MORAL: If you want to humanitarian and to be executed their actions with a song that the Christian Church. times when his missionary zeal know what is really happening at maximum discount. The books did nothing to hurry them up His cqmpatriots looked with got the better of him and he on the Irish iij Britain scene, were tbout James Connolly and Ian but which certainly lent a sense some scepticism on Ivan's way risked Geordie's wrath to try READ THE "IRISH DEMO- , Paisley. of grace and elegance to what- of life but they seemed to enjoy and put us right. CRAT". On January 23rd, the books were ever it was they were doing. singing the Hymns at least. (More next month) returned to the "Irish Democrat" •I""" AC. office with a note from'the Gover- nor as follows: the Press on a commercial basis, "I am returning these books, that WESTMINSTER LOBBIED ON HARASSMENT and there was no reason why you sent in for Noel Jenkinsoti a N.I.C.RA. should not have had prisoner in my custody. It is my VI EMBERS of Connolly Associa- A. W. Stfcllard. John Fraser, Nor- practice of internment without trial, copies of them. The seized photo- •duty to inform you that books tion branches in the south of man Atkinson, Sid Bidwell, W. Mol- still operative in Northern'Ireland. graph? have not been returned. may only be sent in by -rela- England (London, Luton- and Ox- Joy and Eric Heffer. Mr Wellbeloved Those arrested were BRIAN That day at 6.S0 a.m., the home of tives or close friends! Likewise ford) lobbied Members of Parlia- was the issue BRBNNAN (NJLC.RA. N.LCJRA. organiser Madge Davison I am enclosing the forwarding ment on the evening of the Uirtd. of hatttf«piKof NJ.C.RA., but re- PETER McKSB (Belfast was raided She and her husband About TO persons in all attended letter which was received with the quired to frtnk further od the issue Richard Orehan (Press Officer) and were, detained duflng the progress and the main Issue put to them was books as under prison rules of the prigoners. The statement dis- NJall Farrow (Andersonstown Com- of the raid, wWch was repeated at the unnecessary antagonism being prisoners may only correspond with tributed rah: mittee). Though they PnnvMed clear 2: pja, The premises Were thus shown by the security forces in relatives and close friends. evidence of identity they were held searched twice' on one day. and Northern Ireland to -the Northern HPHE Northern Ireland Civil Rights Yours sinoerley (sic)__ efforts were made to Induce her to Ireland Civil lights Association. 1 Association WW founded in and interrogated for three hours. Norman F. Bond, sign an army census form, which The statement printed below, based March 1967, following an initiative -On -December 22nd, tMS. the Governor." has no status under the law. on information phoned over from begun by .the Belfast Trades Coun- Arms raided the Derry City H Q. of While it is in no way incumbent On January 10th, a young Belfast that morning, was banded cil in the (ummer ofW6. It has al- aa^J^-'iair the home of 'the on the "Irish Democrat" to suggest woman, Malre Duffin. was arreted to a number of M.P.S, and some ways pursued a policy of non-violent treasurer, Mageila Shields. They that the Governor is doing any and interrogated on her way to a took extra copies for distribution to representation and throughout all stated they were acting on a more or less than his duty, it would NJLC.RA. stewards' meeting. F*» colleagues in the House. the troutpM"m Northern Ireland "tip-off" ttut declined to disclose be most interesting to know who two hours she was asked question s from IMC. omMj^-bad never at^ what it was they were seeking: They lays this particular duty down, and As well as raising the question of found nothing incriminating and about NXCRA. women members tracted the unfavourable attention On January 13th, 1974, Richard perhaps some of our friends in the harassment of N.I.C.R-A. the went away. Parliament will find out. We sus- lobbiers urged action to ameliorate of the iymffi./jifrtoi', >llcy of N.I.C.R.A. central office at 2 Marquis Street, time. can have his pound back. ' and to transfer them to jails in the had not changed In the slightest, Belfast The raid took place, when N.I.C.R.A. complains that ov< r six counties where they would have there was * sharp change lh the at- the office was unoccupied, but mem- the past month the attitude of U '1 Printed by Ripl% Printers Ltd., political status. titude of the authorities. Thus on bers of the E.G. reached it before it security forces to N.I.C.R.A. and its (T.U.), Nottingham Road, libley. 18th December four members of the was over. It is complained that they members has altered, having becom. "Vf" P.8 who expressed willingness Andersonstown Committee of smashed doors and seized photo- 1 antagonistic and even threatening * to act on both questions were N.I.C.R.A. were arrested while dis- graphs of Long Kesh. AH, these They are unable to account for the Messrs Ernest Perry, D. Weitzman, tributing posters critical of the photographs had been published in above changes.